Ben Zion Gulkowitz

Ben Zion Gulkowitz (1888-1942) was a member of the Bielski Otriad from Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania) who fought in World War II.

Biography
Ben Zion Gulkowitz was born in 1888 in Wilno, Congress Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania) to a family of Jews, and he lived in Wilno peacefully until World War II. Gulkowitz fled Wilno for the Lipczanska Forest of Poland (now the Naliboki Forest of Belarus), where he joined forces with the Bielski Otriad and took part in their fight against Nazi Germany. In 1942, he was killed during a raid on a German transmitter in Stankiewicze while accompanying Zus Bielski and some Soviet partisans during their guerrilla war.